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Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Sky Is Falling

Oh, never mind. It's too late. We're lost. You see, Al Gore wants us to be fossil-fuel free by 2018, but experts are now telling us that we have ... 8 years. That's it. We have 100 months from August 2008 until global warming cannot be fixed.

I found the solutions in the article above fascinating. The solutions were almost exclusively financial in nature. Eliminate big financial institutions because small ones are easier to maintain. Eliminate corporate tax evasion. Take the oil companies' profits and put them in a fund to pay for ... "an Oil Legacy Fund". Raise the price of oil. (Yes, you read that right -- raise the price.) Eliminate exorbitant lending to eliminate over-consumption. Look, here it is in a nutshell. Take complete control of all aspects of the populace to control their finances, their lifestyles, their workplaces, their transportation, their consumption. That way, we can make our planet a greener place.

When I wrote my tongue-in-cheek piece about the topic, I sarcastically proposed a radical fix. It appears that the true believers are out to one-up me, because their fix is much more radical and not the least bit sarcastic. Eliminate freedom. Take control of all people. Stop life as we know it on the planet. You see ... we don't have time to think about it. Just do it!

Lord, save us from "experts".

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